Category: Faculty

January 27, 2022

Explaining the persistence of gender inequality: The work–family narrative as a social defense against the 24/7 work culture

Drs. Irene Padavic and Robin Ely as they present highlights of their 2021 Kanter Award-winning paper.

December 25, 2021

Examining transactional relations between behavioral self-regulation and social-emotional functioning during the transition to kindergarten.

The present study examined longitudinal associations between behavioral self-regulation and social-emotional functioning across four waves of measurement during the transition from preschool to kindergarten in a low-income sample. Participants included two cohorts of children. Children in both cohorts were 4...

October 27, 2021

2022 Funding Program accepting applications

The Center for Families’ annual funding program supports family research across campus. Faculty and students from all departments and colleges are encouraged to apply.

April 29, 2019

CFF Director recognized for positive impact of work

Shelley MacDermid Wadsworth, PhD, CFF director, received Purdue College of Health and Human Sciences Engagement Award on April 26. The College recognizes faculty and staff who have demonstrated outstanding achievements in engagement activities that have positively impacted the stakeholders of...

April 29, 2019

CFF Director honored with University engagement award

Purdue’s Office of Engagement named winners of the annual faculty and staff engagement awards for 2019 at a luncheon on April 16. Shelley MacDermid Wadsworth, PhD, CFF director, received the 2019 Faculty Engagement Fellow Award which recognized her work that...

March 29, 2019

Children Are Using Text Crisis Lines To Report Abuse

Children are reaching out to text-based crisis communication hotlines to seek help for mental illness. Laura Schwab-Reese, PhD, finds they’re also using them as a method to report abuse.

June 29, 2018

Foli recognized by APNA for book that seeks to close research practice gap in psychiatric nursing

Karen J. Foli, PhD, RN, CFF faculty partner, associate professor of Nursing, and Director, PhD in Nursing Program, has written a book that truly seeks to close the research practice gap in psychiatric nursing. Dr. Foli is the recipient of the...

October 31, 2017

Making the Most of Talk About Numbers

Parent number talk is critical to young children’s math learning. Here are easy ways to make number talk a part of everyday life.